Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01Epub Date: 2015-10-26DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1082805
S Hofferth, Yoonjoo Lee
{"title":"Family structure and trends in US fathers' time with children, 2003-2013.","authors":"S Hofferth, Yoonjoo Lee","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1082805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082805","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Father's child care time increased substantially between 1965 and 2011. The objective of this paper is to examine whether there was continued change in father care time and whether father time was linked to family structure and partner's employment. Data on the time use of men 18 to 64 living with children under age 18 were drawn from the American Time Use Survey from 2003 to 2013 (N = 20,609). Not all fathers reported child care time; the proportion of fathers reporting primary child care increased during the recession but by 2013 had returned to pre-recessionary levels. Fathers' total time in child care increased significantly as did their time in play and management activities. The additional amount of child care time contributed by unemployed fathers was substantial - 40 to 55 minutes per day - compared to employed fathers with employed wives. The recession impacted single father' care more than partnered fathers'.</p>","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"318-329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082805","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34469065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1074931
M. V. Gómez, Patricia Barbadillo
{"title":"Attempts to de-familiarise care: the Spanish dependency law","authors":"M. V. Gómez, Patricia Barbadillo","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1074931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1074931","url":null,"abstract":"The socio-demographic changes that Spain has experienced in recent decades revealed the unsustainability of the traditional caregiving system based exclusively on the care provided by family members. In the new scenario, attending to situations of dependency started to be seen as a ‘social problem’ which required public intervention. The Spanish Dependency Law was the response to this demand. However, from among the measures of support available for dependents, cash-for-care to family members were given precedence, rather than the creation of public services to accomplish this purpose. Using the terminology on family care regimes, this article demonstrates that the imbalance which diminishes the role of public services in favour of financial support paid to relatives causes unwanted effects (perpetuation of the feminisation/re-familiarisation of care in this instance) and makes care for dependents more vulnerable, being contingent upon governments’ short-term budget policy, as has occurred with austerity policies during the current crisis.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"338 - 345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1074931","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60318589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1082333
M. Gasser
{"title":"The role of gender culture in predicting fathers’ time-use: Evidence from subnational disparities in Switzerland","authors":"M. Gasser","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1082333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082333","url":null,"abstract":"The present study explores how much time fathers spend on physical and interactive childcare as a function of cultural differences between the 26 Swiss cantons. Two features are important: (1) the subnational design makes the dependency on culture salient and (2) the random forest models quantify the dependency even if it is complex and highly group-specific. The analysis is based on data from the Labour Force Survey about fathers of younger (n = 6985) and older children (n = 6932). Gender culture is construed as family and care ideals aligned on a spectrum between ‘male breadwinner/female part-time care provider’ and ‘dual breadwinner/external care’. The gender culture index turns out to be a high-ranking predictor of fathers’ time spent on interactive care, but not of time spent on physical care. The relation between gender culture and fathers’ time-use is positive with a slight U-shape. Moreover, the models show that 16 socio-demographic variables, together with gender culture, only predict a small part of the variation in fathers’ time-use.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"259 - 269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60319848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1110192
S. Tagliabue, M. G. Olivari, M. C. Miranda, G. Affuso, D. Bacchini, E. Confalonieri
{"title":"Memories of parenting styles and communicative processes in adolescence","authors":"S. Tagliabue, M. G. Olivari, M. C. Miranda, G. Affuso, D. Bacchini, E. Confalonieri","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1110192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1110192","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to (a) examine the links between adolescents’ memories of authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parenting styles and parent–child communicative processes; (b) test adolescents’ and parents’ gender differences. Data were collected from 479 Italian adolescents (Mage = 16.62 years; SDage = 1.46) attending public high schools. Participants completed Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire and Parental Solicitation and Child Disclosure scales. Results indicated that memories of maternal authoritative style were significantly related to both parental solicitation and child disclosure, whereas memories of paternal authoritative style were significantly linked only with parental solicitation. No significant links involving neither authoritarian nor permissive styles were found and no differences between adolescent genders were identified. Present findings suggest that parent–child relationships featuring both warmth and control built through past interactions facilitate communicative processes during adolescence. Future research is needed to confirm the strong relationship between authoritative parenting style and communicative processes in adolescence.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"389 - 393"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1110192","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60320608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1076495
K. A. Merrifield, Wendy C. Gamble, Jeong Jin Yu
{"title":"Using social cognitive theory to understand meta-parenting in parents of young children","authors":"K. A. Merrifield, Wendy C. Gamble, Jeong Jin Yu","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1076495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1076495","url":null,"abstract":"Meta-parenting is a construct that refers to parents’ thought processes as they employ and assess parenting strategies based on their child’s behavior and perceptions of his/her developmental course. The present study examined the associations among parenting self-efficacy, positive relational maintenance, parent and child characteristics, and meta-parenting in heterosexual parents of young children. Mother’s level of education was positively associated with her maintenance behaviors and fathers’ reports of marital maintenance was positively associated with mothers’ reports of meta-parenting. Parenting self-efficacy was positively associated with meta-parenting for mothers and fathers. Child characteristics were not associated with meta-parenting. The present study contributes to current knowledge regarding the empirical associations among these variables and meta-parenting cognitions and by adopting a theoretical perspective, or Social Cognitive Theory, as a backdrop for understanding these and other possible influences.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"362 - 369"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1076495","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60318811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1080991
E. León, J. Palacios, M. Román, C. Moreno, M. Peñarrubia
{"title":"Parental stress, family functioning and children’s psychological adjustment in adoptive families: A comparative and longitudinal study","authors":"E. León, J. Palacios, M. Román, C. Moreno, M. Peñarrubia","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1080991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1080991","url":null,"abstract":"This work focuses on parental stress in adoptive families with regard to certain key components of family functioning (the family cohesion and adaptability and the parental reflective functioning) as well as in its connection with adopted children’s adjustment. The sample included 98 Spanish parents and children: a group of 40 internationally adoptive families and another group of 58 non-adoptive families, who served as a control group. The longitudinal and comparative analysis showed no significant differences between adoptive and non-adoptive families’ stress scores, but a different incidence of higher stress levels (more non-adoptive families scored above the 75% cut-off). Parental stress scores were related to family adaptability, parental reflective functioning and children’s psychological adjustment. The regression model showed that the best parental stress predictor, for adoptive families, was children’s hyperactivity problems, also linked to family adaptability.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"50 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1080991","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60319102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1082049
V. Rouyer, Marie Huet-Gueye
{"title":"Introduction to the special section on coparenting and child’s development: research in practice","authors":"V. Rouyer, Marie Huet-Gueye","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1082049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082049","url":null,"abstract":"This special section includes four studies of coparenting and children’s development in European families and one concluding paper commenting on the studies and projecting future directions. For two decades, research has shown the central role of coparenting dynamics in child’s development in diverse families systems. Research reported in this section was conducted in four different European countries and highlights focal perspectives both for research and for practice.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"191 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60319944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1082053
J. McHale
{"title":"Coparenting in Europe, 2015: Celebrations of advances and cautions about misdirection","authors":"J. McHale","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1082053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082053","url":null,"abstract":"McHale, Rao, and their colleagues have been encouraging ‘emic’ approaches to the study of coparenting since the late 1990s, calling upon indigenous researchers to explore and illuminate the meaning of coparenting within their specific national and cultural contexts. Toward this end, the articles in this special section mark a watershed moment of sorts for the field of coparenting research. Family scientists from one northern European (England) and three Western European (France, Germany, and Switzerland) countries have organized to provide sightings of mother–father coparenting in four different European nations. While certainly not the first or only studies of coparenting completed in the individual countries, each article does afford a snapshot of a ‘moment in time’ that highlights issues thought by the authors to hold special salience for understanding mother–father coparenting in their country. This commentary integrates topics highlighted in the articles of this special section within a broader discussion of conceptual and methodological decision points crucial for assuring additional, generative progression of the coparenting field.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"229 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082053","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60320289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1116452
J. Taylor, B. Stupica
{"title":"Attachment, history of corporal punishment, and impulsivity as predictors of risk-taking behaviors in college students","authors":"J. Taylor, B. Stupica","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1116452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1116452","url":null,"abstract":"Risk-taking behaviors (RTBs) can cause (1) psychological, social, health, and economic problems; (2) physical injury; (3) legal entanglements; and (4) death. Attachment insecurity, corporal punishment, and impulsivity are risk factors for engaging in RTB. The present study is the first to examine all three of these predictors and their interactions for a broad spectrum of RTBs (i.e. academic risk, risky long-term health behaviors (RLTHBs), reckless driving, drug use, drinking, antisocial behavior, and risky sex). Participants were 101 college students who completed a narrative storytelling and self-report attachment assessment, a behavioral assessment of impulsivity, and a battery of RTB self-report questionnaires. Analyses revealed significant and meaningful effects in predicting academic risk, RLTHBs, drug use, antisocial behavior, and risky sex. The effects that emerged differed, but at their core was the effect of attachment on each of the aforementioned RTBs. Discussion focuses on limitations and future directions.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"402 - 412"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1116452","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60320526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1009931
Verena Dähne, T. Jungmann, S. Sierau
{"title":"What relates to paternal feelings and competencies? A structural equation model","authors":"Verena Dähne, T. Jungmann, S. Sierau","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1009931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1009931","url":null,"abstract":"In the present study, we integrated cross-sectional findings on the relation of early paternal feelings and competencies against the background of a theoretical model on determinants of parenting in a sample of 104 socially disadvantaged first-time parents at 6 months postpartum. Participants reported about mental health characteristics, partnership satisfaction, parental self-efficacy, and attachment feelings. Results indicate a reasonable fit of the proposed model, with interrelations between maternal mental health, paternal partnership satisfaction, and mental health. Furthermore, fathers’ partnership satisfaction positively correlates with paternal feelings and competencies. Our results underline the role of fathers’ partnership satisfaction and mental health for his parenting competencies at 6 months postpartum. The study represents a useful starting point for future longitudinal research on fathering and the unique father–infant relation of fathers within the first year postpartum.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"1 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1009931","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60318220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}